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Catherine Hogarth Dickens was too young to sign her own marriage license, but she was expected to be the co-adventurer of her up-and-coming husband Charles while maintaining herself and her home as exemplars of all things Victorian. Her contributions to his career, which included supervising dinner parties through the ninth month of every one of her dozen or so pregnancies, has been sadly neglected, as has her little book of menus and recipes. That little book shows she was altruistic, inventive, and humorous, and concerned with her husband's health, despite the occasional foray into mutton stuffed with oysters. How she managed to plan and supervise dinners for 20 that included 30 menu items, combat severe and frequent post-partum depression, and put up with wandering boy Dickens so long is a testimony to the hidden strength of the legions of Victorian women of the new bourgeoisie. Distributed by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox is a Curatorial Associate of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University where she is Administrator for the Glass Flowers Collection.
